"[I]f I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week…The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." --Charles Darwin

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Today in the Computer Lab

Today each of you is going to create an animation at Xtranormal and post it to a new blog entry. In order to do this you're going to have to write or to "borrow" a script for your animated characters. If you're having trouble coming up with things for them to say, you could try these:

Dozens of famous movie scripts are posted at Drew's Script-O-Rama.
Monty Python scripts are found here. South Park scripts are here. Simpsons scripts are here.
Or you could work with the text of Julius Caesar or Hamlet.

BE SURE THAT YOUR FINAL SCRIPT IS SCHOOL-APPROPRIATE, before you post it to your blog.

Be sure and use all the tools, including gestures, expressions and camera angles. Note: In order for Xtranormal to save your project, you need to open an account by clicking, "Sign In."

Here are instructions on how to embed a video in a blog.

Have fun!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Hamlet animated

This is an automated animation I created at a site called Xtranormal:



What do you think?